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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. control the timing and tempo of military competition and operations.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) Team Neurosmart – Optimizing Performance of Special Operators. If you can’t see the Neurosmart 2-minute video, click here.

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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

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Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator

The Startup Magazine

For instance, ClearFlame Engines — which is developing drop-in engine technology to allow diesel generators and heavy-duty vehicles to run on biofuel without a loss of power — won a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). FGC Plasma Solutions. Atlas Energy Systems.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And that has happened to us.

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Small Business Grants: The Facts and The Fiction

Up and Running

Covering operational expenses. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, for example, is one of the most lucrative sources of federal grants for high-tech startups or high-growth firms (more on SBIR below). SBIR grants for R&D businesses. SBIR is a federal program, overseen by the U.S.

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